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Tenpoundbass
2016 Jun 20, 5:12pm
When my BIL father was alive and practiced in Queens NY. I went up there in late 90's to set up their network and configured the Medical Billing software OBDC drives and network paths.
His Dad had a decent size walk-in Closet full of Trail size drugs. The Reps my BIL said, come by about twice a week and drop them off cartons full of trail drugs to hand out to his patients. Then give them Restaurant gift cards for expensive trendy NYC restaurants. Back in 2002 when I went up, he had a $500 Peter Luger Steakhouse gift card I agreed I would pay the difference not knowing. Would be on the hook for over $300 bucks.
It struck me as odd they had all of those Drugs, they never gave out, yet the Pharma reps would shower them with all kinds of perks. He said his Dad was about healing people not doing God knows what to people's Livers.
They would give out a pack of Drugs, but it was for Short term remedies, where a full regiment wasn't required. His Dad would only prescribe drugs for longer than that, that he fully understood the chemistry of, and understood the other side effects.
curious2 says: "Most Americans are too religious to accept the inevitability of death,"
The Democratic & Republican voters should be skeered because they are going to HELL for destroying America.
Has anyone heard what the candidates have been saying,as in the same old crap & no substantive solutions?
curious2
2016 Jun 20, 5:27pm
When my [brother-in-law's] father was alive and practiced in Queens NY [he] would only prescribe drugs...that he fully understood the chemistry of, and understood the other side effects.
The days of practicing his way have long since passed. Today, especially in high cost areas, the insurance-dominated system would either bankrupt him or force him to sell his practice to a hospital corporation that would increase billing by making more lucrative decisions. Most doctors don't even run their own practices anymore.
While China invests in R&D and builds the world's fastest computers,
agreed with most of what you said but have to agree with AF regarding third party testing of their technological prowess. Chinese are no strangers to blustering about their capacities.
Tenpoundbass
2016 Jun 20, 5:39pm
the insurance-dominated system would either bankrupt him or force him to sell his practice to a hospital corporation that would
The Healthcare Privacy act was the end of the end for him. When He died it was a week after he sold his practice to a big name healthcare company. He flew to Itally on vacation with his wife, kind of the way Gandofini went out. The more they had me to do, the more the government was making it more oppresive to drive people like him out. His patients were Haitian that small insurance plans, and paid the rest out of pocket. His average bills were under $200. It costs that much now just to file a claim. By the time you factor in all of the techonology, and licencing for the very propriatary software, you have to use to be compliant.
"Rx Pizza: 1 Free Meal Can Sway Doctor Prescribing"
For example, the 20x markup for Oxycontin, compared to morphine tablets, can buy a lot of pizza. Ditto the markups for anti-depressants compared to, for example, generic aspirin.
While China invests in R&D and builds the world's fastest computers, Americans are legally required to spend all they can afford on buying and consuming the most toxic pills, fraudulent hospital admissions, non-fraudulent hospital admissions necessitated by those same Rx pills, and of course endless wars on behalf of politicians' sponsors in the MIC and their Saudi clients. While China is now Number One in supercomputing, and Japan is Number One in life expectancy, America continues to be "Number One" in medical and military spending.
"Winning."
In my opinion, the common thread tying together the medical and military industrial complexes is the fear of death. Most Americans are too religious to accept the inevitability of death, so they are easily frightened into paying all they can afford in false hope of "preventating" (participle form of purportedly "preventative" C-T scans) or at least postponing death. They buy SUVs for the same reason, even though SUVs are more dangerous to their owners in addition to being much more dangerous for everyone else on the road. It is a culture driven by fear, managed nightly on the evening news, and exploited by charlatans including way too many politicians.
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